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Interesting read: https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/barefaced-audio-rocking-the-speaker-world-with-innovation/

It's about Queen, so I'm guessing if they bought out 12 films, you might find 5 minutes in each one that might be OK; a little like their albums .

Hi all, just a quick hello. Been on the books since the bassworld days but not of late due to loosing my job and getting divorced, then becoming homeless within the space of a week. Back to playing and on the lookout for a very cheap lefty bass, as I had to sell my collection to be able to eat. Glad to be back here, feeling human.

Simply awesome @Andyjr1515

Well discussed... sambucadan Members 0 17 posts Report post Posted October 11, 2011 Just to set the record completely straight 😉 The Streamer models are similar to Stuart Spector NS basses in terms of body shape, original one piece bridge (now a two piece) and headstock design, which caused a legal conflict when the Streamer was first introduced. Spector eventually sued Warwick for copying the body shape, but the jury decided not to fine Warwick[citation needed] It was well documented that the first versions of the Streamer were exact copies of the NS-Bass™. The SPECTOR® NS-Bass™ was designed by Ned Steinberger for Stuart Spector in 1977; 5-years before Warwick was formed. At the annual NAMM Show in 1985 Stuart Spector became aware that a new German-based company was producing exact copies of his now famous SPECTOR® NS-Bass™. Spector, along with Ned Steinberger, confronted Hans Wilfer and he agreed to pay a licensing fee to both SPECTOR® Guitars and Ned Steinberger in return for being able to continue to produce the Streamer without legal action.[2] Shortly after this agreement was reached, SPECTOR® sold to Kramer Guitars. The new owners had no interest in pursuing Warwick to enforce the licensing agreement and Warwick continued to make the Streamer without any consequence. It is also noted from several sources that Warwick never paid any of the agreed fees. In 1990 Kramer became insolvent and filed for bankruptcy. In the wake of their financial failure Stuart Spector formed Stuart Spector Design, LTD. in 1993. In 1997 after a lengthy court battle, Stuart Spector bought back the trademark and copyrights to SPECTOR® and threatened to sue Warwick to enforce the 1985 license agreement.[3] Facing new legal action from SPECTOR®, Warwick changed many design elements of the Streamer body to make it less like the NS-Bass™. The pending litigation was eventually dropped because the new Streamer design was no longer an exact copy of the NS-Bass™

Okay, can we all stop this now please? This is about the JH Warwick bass, not another Spector vs Warwick and certainly not does a Thumb neck dive yes or no thread. Come on guys.....

I was going to say that I had you down as a bit of a Viz fan, but then I realised you were using the word and not talking about the magazine!

It might be pretty good, then. Back in the day when people read reviews in Time Out before going anywhere in London, you could be sure of a good time if you exclusively went to things that the Time Out journos didn't like... but generally if the public like something, then I won't. Viz: Strictly, BGT, EastEnders, any currently-successful pop act, pizza, burgers, painted-on eyebrows, the Ford Mondeo, artificially-enhanced buttocks, and on and on. Actually, the Mondeo is a good car. But you get my drift.

Hi all. New to this forum and been reading up on the Steinberg Spirit strap mod thingy, having bought an XT25 this week. In agony after using it for a 4-hour rehearsal, I just moved the strap button from the end of the guitar to about 4 inches from the end, and about an inch down from the top (fitted it on back of body) - magic! At least now I can see the lower frets with my failing eyesight, and I'm not playing 2 frets higher than I think I am. Time will tell if it's a comfortable fix, but I'm hoping so!

So, if Kramer Guitars have no issue about it, why do some folk here have to continually beach about it? All the rest is old, been chewed over dozens of times. I like Warwick basses. The legal wrangle isn't my fault and has nothing to do with me. I also don't like the look of the Spector, slightly longer look. It isn't as well proportioned, IMHO. That is just my opinion. If some here don't like Warwick basses, then go and find another thread and keep off the few Warwick ones we have. /rant Phew. I feel better now.

I'm a firm believer in planting a seed first. ... Maybe it's a phrase, maybe just a word. But plant that first in your brain and forget about it. ... If it's good it'll come back again and again. ... Try not to get fixated in rhymes. ... The moon/june/swoon tune. You can always do that later when you're cleaning it up. ... Editing is a big part of writing. ... I wrote a book and the editing was the most painful part. ... Bob Dylan was asked where his early songs came from, Watchtower, Highway 61, etc, and he had no idea and said he could never write like that again. ... I like to write story songs so they have a beginning, a middle and an end. Then you know it's over. ... Study songs you like and try to figure out why they appeal to you. ... Writing is a commitment. Work at it and you'll be good. ...

Quick and dirty pic of my BB434 from Wed night. It acquitted itself well at band practice. Very happy with the sound, the ergonomics and the fit/finish. Would probably put beefier strings on it, the stock ones seem a little thin for my tastes but that's not the bass's fault. A lot of bass for £299, that's for sure.

Yeah, Hans Peter Pilfer has lots of those....... *cough* Spector royalties *cough* 😂

Heh, Country's easy. Here's a starter kit: DO-IT-YOURSELF COUNTRY & WESTERN SONG KIT I met her [1] [2]. I can still recall [3] she wore. 1. 2. 3. on the highway in September that purple dress in Sheboygan at McDonald's that little hat outside Fresno ridin' shotgun that burlap bra at a truck stop wrestlin' gators those training pants on probation all hunched over the stolen goods in a jail cell poppin' uppers that plastic nose in a nightmare sort of pregnant the Stassin pin incognito with joggers the neon sign in the Stone Age stoned on oatmeal that creepy smile in a treehouse with Merv Griffin the hearing aid in a gay bar dead all over the boxer shorts She was [4] [5]. 4. 5 sobbin' at the toll booth in the twilight drinkin' Dr. Pepper but I loved her weighted down with Twinkies by the off-ramp breakin' out with acne near Poughkeepsie crawlin' through the prairie with her cobra smellin' kind of funny when she shot me crashin' through the guardrail on her elbows chewin' on a hangnail with Led-Zeppelin talkin' in Swahili with Miss Piggy drownin' in the quicksand with a wetback slurpin' up linguini in her muu-muu and I knew [6]; [7] I'd [8] forever; 6. 7. 8. no guy would ever love her more I promised her stay with her that she would be an easy score I knew deep down warp her mind she'd bought her dentures in a store She asked me if swear off booze that she would be a crashing bore I told her shrink change my sex I'd never rate her more than "4" The judge declared punch her out they'd hate her guts in Baltimore My Pooh Bear said live off her it was a raven, nothing more I shrieked in pain have my rash we really lost the last World War The painters knew stay a dwarf I'd have to scrape her off the floor A Klingon said hate her dog what strong deodorants were for My hamster thought pick my nose that she was rotten to the core The blood test showed play "Go Fish" that I would upchuck on the floor Her rabbi said salivate She said to me [9]; But who'd have thought she'd [10] [11]; 9. 10. 11. our love would never die run off with my best friend there was no other guy wind up in my Edsel man wasn't meant to fly boogie on a surfboard that Nixon didn't lie yodel on "The Gong Show" her basset hound was shy sky dive with her dentist that Rolaids made her high turn green on her "WorkMate" she'd have a swiss on rye freak out with a robot she loved my one blue eye blast off with no clothes on her brother's name was Hy make it at her health club she liked "Spy vs. Spy" black out in a Maytag that birthdays made her cry bobsled with her guru she couldn't stand my tie grovel while in labour [12] goodbye. 12. You'd think at least that she'd have said I never had the chance to say She told her fat friend Grace to say I now can kiss my credit cards I guess I was too smashed to say I watched her melt away and sobbed She fell beneath the wheels and cried She sent a hired thug to say She freaked out on the lawn and screamed I pushed her off the bridge and waved But that's the way that pygmies say She sealed me in the vault and smirked

My current set up. Traynor YBA200-2 paired with A Traynor TC410 NEO cab. Bass's 1978 Music man stingray and Fender Jag.

An unsolicited photo of my BB 😍

Until recently I had a 2012 mac mini 2.3Ghz that I upgraded to 16gb RAM and an SSD. It was pretty sedate before, but it was BLISTERINGLY quick with the upgrades The only thing to be aware of is what age of hardware the operating system supports. With each osx update another "generation" of macs is lopped off. Even as fast as it was, the mac mini I had probably wouldn't survive another update after Mojave... Not the end of the world, but software upgrades will eventually squeeze you.

I like this - I think I'll have a play with it and see where it goes. I've thought of an ending, though. It needs work, but the basic shape's about there: So I'm sending you this letter saying what we did today The sights, the sounds, the smells, I could go on and on But when the waiter asked me, I had nothing real to say For she was only there in memory, reality's long gone

oh yes, a very powerful live band. i saw them on the Live Killers (or whatever it was billed as back then)tour, never heard a live band fill out a venue with so much coming from so little since.

Take my hand and join me for a homophobic beating in Deptford. We'll top off the evening with a fatal heroin overdose in South Norwood.

...but this sounds more like "measure about 20 different interrelated things twice making sure not to muddle them up, then measure them again, walk away from it for a bit, go back, measure again for good luck, THEN cut once..."

I was going to edit to say 'cant wait to download this one', but i felt it better to come clean and admit i didn't read every post 🙂

I couldn't agree more Billy Bragg has a great way with unexpected rhymes: In the end it took me a dictionary To find out the meaning of unrequited While she was giving herself for free At a party to which I was never invited The point I was making is phrasing is more important that forcing a word to fit just because it rhymes.

I picked up a quality padded laptop backpack in a charity shop for £5. I think it was a promotional thing as it had a box of decent quality gel pens inside that were branded with the same name, too. Always worth checking out charity shops as you never know what you'll find. Actually, strictly speaking that is not true - you will always find that horrible smell of care home/air-freshener/disinfectant/death

People who note deficiencies in the way that people use their mother tongue....were they not once called "Teachers" and treated with much respect?

The first thing I find is a spark of inspiration , it’s difficult to conjure up a story without knowing what you want to say. the genre makes a massive difference to the lyric type and content and style. have a stab at the monthly composition challenge , it offers a great starting point. you get a subject given to you , you get a visual scene presented and most importantly , you have a deadline , you can write stuff forever but until you actually start to press the publish button it doesn’t seem done to me. Like everything else, practice works, just keep knocking them out and one day you might start to like one or two of them

My friend worked on it and said that Sasha Baron Cohen left the project because the script was changed to leave out all the ‘finer details’ and to not offend Freddies family, so they went for a more bubble gum friendly film, leaving out the raw details. Sure it’ll still be fun to watch though.

Must be Canadian tourists. I hear that the EU is looking for a few good positive people. They're calling their new program, Brentry, where the dog comes back with a winning lottery ticket in his mouth, the van gets repaired by the insurance company at no cost, the best friend dumps your wife, the wife returns in a thong with a case of Foster's and you win that new ruby red Rickenbacker bass from Sweetwater's Monthly Gear Giveaway..., Then you wake up and can remember the whole dream.

Well, if you wanted to join a metal band, this would show you what country you needed to go to (hint, its Finland) America is 72 for balance. I am guessing more around the edges. https://jakubmarian.com/number-of-metal-bands-per-capita-in-europe/

Or do some people watching: I stand alone on a silent street in a town so far away While they picture me as I post a letter saying where I went today Did this, did that, got drunk, bought tartan tat As the rows of blank-faced windows glared and told me to go away ... etc 🙂

I have an update, with photo and list. BC Rich Zombie NT Kay KJP-1B (I think!) 1969 Stagg semi-acoustic guitar Washburn RB-2002 Hammerhead Hohner B-bass IV Allen Eden Jazz Fender MIJ Jazz Bass Special 1985 Ibanez P bass 1972/73ish Tenson Jumbo electro-acoustic Vintage V940 Active Bubinga fretless Retrovibe Zygote Peavey International Series P bass eBay special bitsa Yamaha RBX765A (the only bass I really need!) Vintage Les Paul guitar Encore Strat copy Johnson Strat copy Washburn ABT B10/B20 hybrid Washburn ABT B20 Unknown P/J thing that weighs as much as the moon! Spector Q5 Pro SGC Nanyo Bass Collection fretless Harley Benton Progressive 5 fretless Hohner B2AV I make that 20 bass and 4 electric guitars. Marco Elwray's Infinga 4 and a mate's Hohner B2A are also in shot, but aren't mine.

wonder how many remixes we'll get of the Beatles back catalogue? Reminds of an Ozzy Osbourne quote after yet another Black Sabbath greatest hits, "it's like they're digging up a dead prostitute for one last fu*k". Back to the White Album, according to George Martin it would have made a great single album, can't really argue.

Now that's worth repairing

To be honest you can buy the headless bass bridge and nut kits for £25-£30 on AliExpress so this might make a nice Hohner The Jack copy project for someone up for a bit of Steinbuggery, especially as it should go for a very low price. With a bit of elbow grease you might end up with a presentable through neck underneath all that green marker pen.

That BC208 cab looks rather nice - if it would fit size-wise under a BG250-208 then I reckon I might give one a spin.

It sounds better too...

If you are reading this (yes, you) and thinking "I will get earplugs when I am older" then do yourself a favour and get them now. Hearing damage happens over time. When you notice it, then it is too late. Take it from ALL of us who did not do it right.

Nope 🙂 only one Thumb I have owned has notably neck dived, a Bolt On 2000 model with a big chunky neck. The multiple NT models I have had have balanced wonderfully at a variety of strap lengths. Like I said previously, if anything the older ones are body heavy due to the dense bubinga and thin necks. ANYWAY WHY are we having to talk about Spector in a Warwick thread again? 🙂 Funny how there is relatively little Warwick talk in a Spector thread...lets forget all that and just concentrate on not being Fender players together 😁

No point you saying that, he says he can't hear ambient sounds. 🙂

I think this should put the whole debate to bed "So... where does this bring us? As you have probably seen in amplifier spec sheets, manufacturers rate the output of their amplifiers in watts RMS. For example, let's consider the vintage amplifier Kenwood Model KA-9100. This amplifier is rated to put out 90 watts RMS per channel into an 8 ohm load. Technically speaking, the term "RMS" is not defined when referring to power (watts)! RMS is a valid term when referred to voltage or current, but not power! Watts are watts, period! Despite the term "watts RMS" being an incorrect term, it stuck with the community and has become the accepted way to rate an amplifier's output. The reason that audio amplifiers are rated in "watts RMS" is because they are rated to deliver that amount of power using a sine wave signal. Because amplifiers are rated this way, their peak power output will be twice the RMS rating. So, for the Kenwood KA-9100 (which is rated to deliver 90 watts RMS into 8 ohms), the peak power is 180 watts. Most amplifiers cannot sustain output at their peak capability for too long (and the characteristic of most music signals is such that this is not necessary anyway). So, despite "watts RMS" being a technically invalid term, it is used with audio amplifiers because of the sine wave signals that are used to determine their power output specifications. Question: What are (at minimum) the rail voltages necessary for an amplifier to deliver 90 watts into an 8 ohm load? It is not too hard to figure this out. We simply look at the equations for power: P=VI = I2R=V2/R In this case, there are two known items: power (90 watts) and resistance (of the speaker, 8 ohms). Plugging these numbers into the equation (P=V2/R) yields a value for V of 26.83 volts. Is this the answer to the rail voltage question? No... REMEMBER, if we applied 26.83 volts of DC (note: DC) across an 8 ohm speaker the power to the speaker would in fact be 90 watts. However, amplifiers are rated using sine wave input signals, and (as described above) we need to apply more voltage to a load (for a sine wave) in order to get the same amount of power that would be delivered by a DC voltage. For sine waves, the multiplication factor is 1.414. So, if we take the voltage of 26.83 and multiply it by 1.414 (the square root of 2), we get a value of 37.94 volts. This value is the absolute minimum rail voltage needed for an amplifier to deliver 90 watts (with a sine wave signal) to a load! Had we mistakenly determined that 26.83 was the correct rail voltage, the amplifier would begin to clip as the output tried to exceed 45 watts of output. Note that 45 watts is exactly one half of the 90 watt value. This shows that by increasing the rail voltage by a factor of 1.414 results in the amplifier having twice as much output capability! This can also be deduced by looking at the equations for power." Full article here http://www.rocketroberts.com/techart/powerart_a.htm